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Google co-founder Sergey Brin is dedicating most of his time to self-driving cars, he tells Brad Stone of Bloomberg Businessweek.
Brin had been working on Google Glass, but he says it's "basically done." So it's on to the next thing.
And here is...
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Gold futures extended losses in electronic trading after minutes from the Fed's May policy-setting meeting showed board members weighed an early end to the central bank's bond-buying program.
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Consumers gravitate to convenience. That's as true with payment technologies as it is with anything else. A prime example is the decades-old trend away from cash or checks and toward credit cards.
Now, the mass adoption of smartphones and tablets...
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Google confirmed to Bloomberg Businesweek today that it bought Makani Power, a company that makes airborne turbines that collect wind power and delivers it to the ground via a tethered cable.
Makani Power will become part of Google X, Google's...
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Concerned about the need to fight antibiotic resistance and possible bioterrorist attacks, the U.S. government will give drug maker GlaxoSmithKline up to $200 million over the next five years to help fund research into new antibiotics.
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Options traders are questioning the timing of a set of last-minute trades in Saks Tuesday that stand to bring in huge profits following news the company may be exploring a sale.
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KKR weighing an investment in Saks, possibly with an eye toward merging the high-end department store with rival Neiman Marcus, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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A more detailed look at China's economic performance in 2012 shows it tipped further off balance, relying more than ever on credit-fueled investment, a trend it had tried to rein in.
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IMF chief Christine Lagarde is set to appear for questioning at a special court in Paris on Thursday as part of a criminal probe into whether public funds were misused when she served previously as France's finance minister.
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French bank Société Générale is moving to dismiss Vladimir Golubkov, chief executive of its Russian unit Rosbank, a week after he became the target of a probe into alleged bribery in the country.
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